Caged John

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Writing about music from inside the machinery of it all: the concert hall, classroom, green room, and late-night drive home. These posts follow the culture that forms around music and sound, what gets lost or kept as the world around music changes, and what music’s resistance to being pinned down reveals about how we experience and value things. Part storytelling, part observation, and part ongoing argument with myself.

Residual Signals artwork

October 10, 2026

Residual Signals

When I started imagining my new record, I had some precedents in mind, even though they all came from the rock world.

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A bass guitar, cables, pedals, and handwritten music on a wooden stage

Photo: Jorge Soto Farias

September 26, 2026

What We Give the Music We Take

I walked into a club one night to hear a band, and three songs in they played one I’d written.

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